The reward I see immediately for your character is that you have a life, marriage, business and bank account that reflect your character. I know in the time that I’ve read your posts and listened to your mp3’s, you have been a great addition to my life and business. This blog post further illustrates to me the *value* of your character and how it adds to my life and my day today.

You and Sharon are terrific people, and the standard that you both bring to your work has been such a benefit to me! I hope the character you both hold continues to bring further riches to your experience of being alive. Despite the fact that they stole your poles, it’s a more beautiful world with people like you in it.

Thanks for being in mine!

I read this post and knew what I wanted to say in response, but patiently read through everyone else’s responses just to make sure that I wouldn’t be saying what everyone else had said. I’m pleased to find that I can add something unique to this discussion.

First, I wanted to ask if you’ve read Emmerson’s essay on Compensation. Our friends that know the Bible and the Torah well will find in it a compilation of thoughts that expound on the concepts and truths taught in those holy books, and our friends that believe in karma can share in deeper insights into those beliefs. The jist of it is that you never lost your poles. That with every act whether good or bad comes the reward (or punishment) for that act. Emmerson restates and expounds on what the good book teaches, that posession is not ownership, and therefore you could not give your poles away to someone who needed them in any way that cost you, because with the act of giving immediately came the reciprocate of that action (as with all actions).

I would say that it was time for you to recieve better poles, which you needed to take you to new and better places, but which you couldn’t recieve because you were so firmly attached to what you had. So you gave, because it’s your nature, and recieved because it’s the way everything works. And as you testified you have better poles now.

It’s a limited, short sighted, narrow way of thinking to look at the world and see loss and lack. Those only exist in the most confined of spaces. Did you know in the desert there is almost always at least 30% moisture content in the air? Lots of people know that about 100 years ago they predicted humanity would starve because the earth couldn’t produce enough food to sustain the population growth, and that man could never exceed speeds of 45 miles per hour (if I remember right it was roughly the top speed of horses). Anytime you’re looking at a loss or lack remember that what you’re looking at is a VERY small portion of what is, and with all that is, how could you possibly be without?

Some of you will think this way of thinking is etherial or impractical, or doesn’t hold any deep significance for day to day living. Many people as well as myself have proven over and over again its inherant utility in small things as well as large. Ponder it a while, and if it doesn’t make you at least twice the money you paid for it, I’ll give you all my money.

It’s MY favorite hike… I go at least once a month. In fact, I was there just Wednesday this week.

I’ve long since purchased a new set of improved poles though, and they’ve carried me miles and miles on the highest peaks.

Have a great 4th

I would be great if you can find these people again and get the right answer .
That answer may be entirely different from your assumptions .

Have a happy New Year … this has been an interesting exchange!

(Everyone else, please ignore this as the newer Hyper Responsive Approach is somewhat different)

I did learn how to put a survey together as your example was quite clear, but unfortunately I must have implemented it poorly because my responses were not at all good, even thought I thought I was following the instructions to the letter. And the poor responses led to my inability to find the hot buttons. I didn’t mean to criticize your methods, and although I had an older version of the system I wouldn’t have criticized it for being too complicated.

But on the search continuum thing: while I’ve heard you talk about how there is a search continuum, I looked and looked for where you talk about how to actually find this thing, instead of just giving an example of a singular and plural word used for guinea pigs that come at different points in the search lifecycle. If it was there, I’ve never found it. Can you point me to the spot where the method for discovering it is described/discussed?

By the way, though I may be the first to bring this one up too,
I thought the best part of the package (the version I had of the original seminar) was Sharon’s role playing of a focus group. That was brilliant all by itself. And since my words seem to be betraying me here, please don’t take it as an iinsult, as it is meant to say more good about her than bad about you.